I've decided to be all wild and crazy today and actually post to my livejournal. Now there's something I haven't done in a good seven months.  I've become one of those people... one of those people that avidly reads their friends' page but never actually bothers to post anything about themselves.  It's kind of sneaky.

Anything's better than ( Read more... )

The question most passionately on my mind right now:

How the hell do people afford graduate school?!?

Despite the fact that I'm fully funded, I'm still a ball of stress trying to figure out how I'm going to make it all work: rent, health insurance, car insurance, car payments, food, utilities, gas, books, the occasional purchase of suitable-for-cold- ( Read more... )

my new school

Dr. J. Swin ( Read more... )

I love my cats.

And in other news, I love my life. Despite receiving that dreaded, first rejection letter from graduate school that I pretty much knew was coming, I'm pretty fabulous. That probably has much to do with the fact that I just returned from a weekend trip to Arizona where I saw the Grand Canyon for the first time and then stopped over ( Read more... )

SPLITTINGS

1.

My body opens over San Francisco like the day-

light raining down    each pore crying the change of light

I am not with her    I have been waking off and on

all night to that pain    not simply absence but

the presence of the past    destructive

to living here and now    Yet if I could instruct

myself, if we could learn to learn ( Read more... )

So basically I don't write anymore. Unless it has something to do with graduate school applications, I just don't write. This is really strange for me. From age 13 to 17, I religiously kept a journal-- and we're not talking entries three or four days a week. We're talking volumes and volumes of leather bound books with not a day missing. And ( Read more... )

Grad School Applications: Almost done!

Today I have attacked the torturous task of writing personal statements.  These require me to consolidate my many and varied philosophical interests into 500 words or less, often also including information on honors/awards/scholarships from my undergraduate days (Phi Eta Sigma Delta Zeta Theta... How am I ( Read more... )

A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners, a two- or three- page multiple-choice document that covered all the music/film/TV/book bases.  It was intended a) to dispense with awkward conversation, and b) to ( Read more... )

So I just watched the James Blunt music video for "You're Beautiful" on Vh1. I know what you're thinking... "Damn, I wish I had time to sit on my butt and watch music videos on Vh1 at 10:30 on a Wednesday morning. But I don't." Well, I don't either. Usually I'm at work doing the bank deposit at 10:30 on Wednesday morning. But I'm home sick ( Read more... )